the stories that shaped this week here on oxy the death of another russian toddler in an adoptee if us family leads to allegations he could have been killed. all across russia. fresh rallies clashes on the hunger strikes in the west bank death of a palestinian in an israeli jail further fuels week long protests against the plight of palestinian prisoners. and italians choose their parliament and one of the most unpredictable votes in the country's history which could see a comeback by show. or breakthrough by a former comedian. with

us stories that made headlines this week you're watching the weekly or not with me will receive shy. it's been a field of this week is that another russian child died after being adopted by an american family the twentieth such death since the mid ninety's the news that three year old maxime cruz man was found a bruised and dead at the home of a texas couple coast outrage in russia but the boy's adoptive mother claims it was an accident but there are suspicions maxime could have been abused and killed taking up the story for us he's a nice to see a child. twenty russian children in the last seventeen years died in their adoptive american families most recently here in texas much she was mean known to locals as max shadow just what i heard on the news was not just that a kid had some scratches. that's all i know three year old mark and his younger brother keel lived in this house with their adoptive parents in a rather secluded neighborhood it was from here that on the afternoon of january

twenty first the boy was taken away by an ambulance never to come back his legs had an internal organs were allegedly severely bruised. it could mean could if this is confirmed as a result of the investigation that maxime's death was a result of certain violent actions but specific circumstances of his death have yet to be announced i can't get into that because it would be speculative. for the results to come back russian officials had no knowledge of the incident until almost a month after the boy's death it was a little bit later that we started getting some suspicions of what was going on and that all developed from talking to the parents the people that live there it just took a little more time moscow says this is far from the first time it has been left in the dark about an adopted child stuff. even unfortunately it's usually months after russian child has died in the u.s. that the american side informs us about it and one case it was five years after

a boy died. a probe is now being conducted in texas and russia has an ongoing investigation of its own. if as a result of the investigation it is determined that maxine was killed by his mother for example if this is the conclusion of the investigation naturally those responsible for the death of the russian boy will have to suffer the most severe punishment meanwhile at the u.s. state department we obviously take very seriously the welfare of children particularly children who've been adopted from other countries according to moscow little cooperation was shown until it was demanded. well what. with almost two dozen deaths caused by abuse and even manslaughter russia in a move often criticized recently imposed a ban on american adoption of its kids on. i've always believed that russia should stop these adoptions and i hope that they maintain this ban and don't yield to pressure autopsy an investigation results are expected to take weeks if not months

to be announced no arrests have yet been made the dead boy's younger brother's destiny is yet to be determined for now he continues living in the adoptive family where his brother died while the investigation of flow paced and the alleged information on the little boy's life and death extremely scarce one of the questions that demand an answer is why should it take a rigid push from abroad for the us to pay attention to yet another tragic destiny of a hopeless child to whom it promised a better life on its soil and r.t.e. act or county texas. in the meantime a nielson given from pound a puppy legacy that's a group that monitors children placed with new families so the case highlights some rather large shortcomings within the u.s. adoptive system. the united states has a very complex adoption system where the state department has federal responsibilities which it can't properly executed because adoption itself is

performed at the state level in america the federal government has no control over what actually happens in in adoptions you need to have a proper system in place that checks birth adoptive parents much better before the adoption which has posts adoption monitoring all that is not really in place there is screening but it's not properly done post adoption monitoring is impossible. especially in america it is impossible because of right to privacy. or the treatment of russian orphans by their adoptive u.s. families and the subsequent russian adoption ban against the u.s. certainly sparked fierce debate on our website r.t. dot com you'll find more stories from both sides you can also get a hold and leave your own comments there if you like. so now tensions are

escalating in the west bank where the death of a palestinian in an israeli jail has triggered a fresh wave of violence thousands of palestinian prisoners are already refusing food in a show of solidarity with the dead man dozens of protesting palestinian youths have been tear gassed by israeli soldiers and the israeli side says the prisoner died of a heart attack but palestinians insist he was tortured during interrogation his death has a further angered the palestinians who have already been rallying for a week against the conditions in israeli prisons and in support of hunger strikes and the protests repeatedly ended in fierce clashes with israeli soldiers who used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the crowds. well the person issue wasn't the only one causing divisions between the two sides this week more clashes erupted when jewish settlers attacked palestinian demonstrators in the north of the west bank shooting to as always paula slater reports there could be no end to this confrontation as long as israel continues building on land considered to belong to

the palestinians its rugged unremarkable landscape largely empty but full of meaning this is one of the west bank's most sensitive pieces of real estate for fourteen years plans to build here have existed but were kept on hold but all of that changed last november less than twenty four hours after the u.n. general assembly recognize palestine is a nonmember observer state tel aviv fast track to construction plans here prompting the palestinian government to call it a slap in the face of the entire world. this plan to build here is not legal according to international law which states that when one country occupies another it can really change facts on the ground israel is doing exactly that will also get people out of their lands soley for the benefit of the settlers. known as the one this controversial patch of earth exists between east jerusalem where palestinians aspire to establish the capital of

a future palestinian state and the huge israeli settlement of ma'ale adumim it is the last remaining corridor between the large palestinian cities in the west bank and if plans go ahead and the israelis extend the syria it would cut into a big chunk of the west bank effectively driving a wedge into the middle of any potential palestinian state critics have warned that filling the space with jewish homes amounts to a doomsday scenario effectively striking a fatal heart attack to the two state solution but for now the plan is to build a garbage dump in this valley with the waste that comes from jerusalem and then in about twenty to thirty years when it's full to build a park on top of us here you can see mark palestinians fear it is part of a long term strategy to extend the one and build new israeli settlements it's not surprising this is not the first time that such a plan is submitted it is a bird of ongoing policy that has been going for years now in at the end to grab

palestinian lands but first the israelis need to get rid of the people who live here among them around three arab jerusalem neighborhoods and one hundred fifty bedouins for whom this has been home for nearly half a century tel aviv complains the bedwyn camps were set up eagerly without permits and stand in the way of urban planning but critics say this is just an excuse for a land grab it makes me furious this dump site is going to harm the environment and it's going to harm the health of the people and they make it harder and harder to find a solution for the situation demolition orders have already been issued threatening to destroy the last remnants of bedwyn life in these hills and while israeli officials say the construction anyone if it happens at all is many years away it cuts to the heart of the israeli palestinian conflict which fundamentally is about the land and the fate of the people who live on a policy or r t in the west bank. and polars are closely following developments in

the west bank updating us on her latest twitter feed and you can head over to. underscore for the very latest on the rallies on the plight of the hunger striking person. so ten minutes past the hour moscow time europe is holding its breath on sunday as austerity hit italians choose their next parliament from a former comedian. prime minister silvio berlusconi. of choice on the ballot results reports may well throw the debt. even more on.

this italian parliamentary election offers plentiful options for the country's voters at first glance but dig deeper and you'll realize the choice isn't all it seems but the talents are confused and there is still a part of them who has no style g.-o. for the good old times of mr berlusconi. you know they saw they could all become millionaires and this was the big news and it wasn't the streets of rome aligned with posters from various political parties and candidates all smiles and bright colors offering the best future possible for italian voters agree low is not the leader but the face of a movement whose plan is simple to do away with the politics that italy has been used to for the past couple of decades and bring about a new type of rule the number said by my purview i don't feel protected by the state i want to state that is visible there is no state in this country just

a bureaucracy of laws that has replaced democracy there isn't anything left i want to state that will bring back public schools the health care system i want to be protected among the crowds disillusioned but as always politics is danny and allison has started small by successfully challenging politicians in his small hometown in the south like many talents he does not trust the current political system that leaves office if you're lucky if you think there will be a vote was ok i figured that pretty much. of the all. the way to get. you to have it if you think that you are a fickle people but if you follow it but it is time for a change at least one hundred thousand people showed up to support the lowes movement in the center of rome the biggest political gathering in half a century people say popular because it speaks clearly and they say that one of the

main thing to say so they have to go or home. oh. yes they're finished this right because the the political class as lost in the in the influence on the part of the population especially young people. the crisis which we have a political class absolutely unable to cope with the situation and the situation is a desperate one the longest recession in twenty years more than one third of the country's youth are without a job corruption that feeds organized crime and manages to siphon off as much as sixty billion euro a year by some estimates and declaring wealth divide between various italian regions basically italy's huge a parliament will have a mouthful to chew to avoid choking on the problems which have accumulated over the years perhaps doing away with the old men in suits no matter how respectable they may appear in favor of

a foul mouth but seemingly honest comedian may be just the thing to put an end to italy's political drama in rome. now egypt's president is struggling to appease protesters with promises well as law enforcement tactics or a new course more. paranoids he will fall on the allegations of abuse and torture used by local police while the government hands out weapons to the lowest ranking officers. overcoming a military crises in the middle east have become america's burden after a short break we'll take a look at how washington strengthens its key foreign ties using its education system.

you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. mission free cretaceous free in-store chargers free arrangement three. three stooges free. download free blog clothing videos for your media projects a free media dog our teton tom.

it's good to have you with us here on all. rule research sharon in moscow there is further turmoil in egypt where the government is struggling to contain street violence president mohamed morsi has brought forward parliamentary elections to april twenty second as the opposition leader is calling for a boycott of the vote of protests have been going on for weeks now with the opposition accusing the president of hijacking the revolution and backtracking on promises as aussies build true reports of the unrest has often been accompanied by claims of widespread police abuse and torture. in his hometown of tanta the big game of the point south where local youth have renamed to street after his son mohammed a twenty eight year old activist allegedly tortured to death by security forces two weeks ago after protesting on tyreese square. on the first time i went to see

mohammed in hospital i didn't recognize him seriously his race was covered with his skull fractured when i asked the doctors they told me this is mohamed odeh. although mohammed's injuries points to torture his mother sammy says the official forensic report maintains he died after a car crash yet to be about the south in what vehicle brakes teeth is there a car that stamps on a person with a shoe shattering the glasses and pushing them into his eyes what car only injures a person's head but not their legs yeah. right now egypt is witnessing unprecedented levels of police violence against protesters rights groups reporting with at least ten x. a judicial killings by security forces since president mohamed morsi to power the west divide it's often a chis in places like this infamous security directorate behind me which can be big for mohammed's balcony however the most worrying trend activists say is the

targeting of children in an impoverished district of alexandria explains how her thirteen year old son up to rahman was detained for over two weeks for being a bystander at a demonstration. the police used violence against children my son has caused some of the loses all over his body as a hound's young children because kim scantron away from them. told us if anyone tries to contact their family or friends they would beat us despite the scenes like these the interior minister denies security forces use violence against protesters and refer. it's that torture is systemic in the police force instead the government says it will arm low ranking police offices sparking fears of other abuses back during egypt's revolution a key demand was police reform but people here say there's no evidence of that

until there is crowds of thousands continue to push for change though many fear the worst is yet to come true for r t the cairo. are twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow let's get into the our two world update now starting with afghanistan or at least one person killed six wounded in a series of explosions across the eastern side of the country a car bomb went off near the national director of the security building followed by two suicide blasts targeting police headquarters and a security checkpoint in the logar province of the taliban has also claimed responsibility for the attacks as a would be suicide bomber was also killed in the country's capital as he tried to enter an area housing internal security offices. pope benedict has delivered a final blessing before his resignation to thousands of people gathered at some peter's square in vatican city you know if you would step down earlier this month

becoming the first point of to do so in nearly six hundred years there all the while citing simple health reasons critics of the catholic church of claim the move could be a result of brewing sex and corruption scandals. massive pile up at a nascar rally in the u.s. has left thirty three spectators injured at least two of them critically they were hit by debris that was launched into the stands the accident happened on the last lap of the florida writes of course as drivers are told towards the checkered flag . or let's cross over to our team part of the sports team of course for more details of exactly what happened we were just showing some absolutely shocking footage the nascar daytona tell us what happened while all of this happened on the final turn the leader was going all out to block off his rivals and then the cars began to pile up rookie col lawson he pried into the rest of the his car when airborne and de vry was scott's incented to the crowds the day i know it for it's

alice's so far which of course is a miracle but we'll have more on that in the sports show tomorrow also off to three russian teams go through to the last sixteen of you right believe we'll have more information on cisco's next generation of stars join us for the sport tomorrow all right good stuff looking for to it we'll see you then. well for now america's newly appointed state department chief john kerry has embarked on his first foreign trip in the job the nine nation tour will see kerry outline policy positions on the syria crisis as well as the iranian nuclear energy program in a fortnight takes a look at washington's new top diplomat america's new secretary of state john kerry is on his first official overseas trip visiting nine countries in western europe and the middle east over the course of ten days hillary clinton's replacement will reportedly consult with allies on topics including iran the up peoples in the arab

spring countries and syria's civil war secretary kerry is also scheduled to meet with members of syria's opposition according to the state department the top u.s. diplomat thinks of this trip as quote listening tour meanwhile in his first speaking engagement as u.s. secretary of state mr kerry ran into some geography problems when referring to democratic reforms in the non existant country of cures ixtapa they fight corruption in nigeria they support the rule of law and burble they support democratic institutions and georgia kyrgyzstan is the country kerry should have said but unfortunately his speech was written with the mistake reporting from new york. r.t. . analogy is coming to you live from moscow with education the doors of america's top universities are always a bit a job of people looking to become the world's next leaders. nature can looks at how

the u.s. uses its education system to help to tip the political balance of tomorrow. the u.s. is investing in potential for invaders by educating them in america convinced that back in their home countries when the time comes most of them will side with u.s. interests in power future generations of political leaders who've had a positive american experience and they are more likely to be global partners libya's mahmoud jibril could be one example having studied in the u.s. he went on to become the head of libya's transition government he's now the leader of one of the country's biggest political parties there's little doubt which country he would favor when it comes to dividing lucrative oil deals in the future u.s. foreign service officers had their eye on him even before the revolution broke out a leaked diplomatic cable from november two thousand and nine written by the u.s. ambassador to libya gene credits described mr general as quote

a serious into lockett or who quote unquote gets the u.s. perspective and of course mr gibril is not the only one who gets the u.s. perspective ninety two percent of the people who go on u.s. government exchanges go on to work in civil society positions in the parliament or in an n g o sariah took a two year course in public diplomacy in two thousand and six at the university of south in california and in this particular program this was every single lecture has a state department member. so you know that you're not really learning public relations . how to implement. the u.s. trade and development agency an offshoot of the state department's usa id claims that what they call aid is actually investment for every one dollar they invest they get eight dollars back in u.s. exports it's absolutely an investment and there's

a return on investment. it is very hard to quantify that return completely but i can tell you that you could quantify it in troops but you don't have to send somewhere so i never pursued a career with the training. part it was a thing of the country i mean i made to be fond of the government in iran but i support. and i was sitting last. lectures and people saying how do we think the market how did we undermine the government we thank you two thousand and seven when i was in their program they had ordered this storm to push towards africa diplomacy is good business as has been made clear by the state department time and time again getting foreign leaders and their advisors to think in english and to subsequently favor the united states in their policy is much cheaper and bombing their country so the state department will certainly be more forceful in their efforts at exercising some power in washington i'm going to shake

them. now iran has announced it's found thousands of tons worth of uranium reserve and says it will use spot on its nuclear program and build more power reactors online find out what officials in america and europe hope to do about. the governor of nevada of course home to las vegas sign and you know what he says will put the u.s. state at the forefront of gambling legislation. has his plan. syrian rebels have received a new batch of heavy weaponry from outside sponsors across the jordanian border to fight president assad that's according to both are about to rebel officials it comes as fledgling efforts to promote peace talks in the syrian conflict a appear to have stalled the main opposition group syria's national coalition announced it's pulling out of upcoming international told same but helping to end the bloodshed between the groups will skip mean. exiting russia and the u.s.

over what it sees as a lack of international condemnation of the assad government is also boycotting the gathering of the friends of syria alliance which consists of the rebels foreign backers syrian activist about a walk half says the western powers could be losing their influence over the opposition and the rebels. and they do not want to have any dialogue with the syrian government because all their strategy is based in a sense on the syrian government falling and them coming as a substitute they do not have a lot of already on the ground he also really is for the rebels rather than the political elite that are called the national council of preceded the national commission so all they are interested in is for the government to form they know that the western societies of western countries have invested a lot in them both in money and time and so on in organizing them and they think that they can.